ACE

United States tax law defines the Adjusted Current Earnings (ACE) depreciation rules. You can update your ACE book according to ACE rules automatically. To provide sufficient ACE information for your tax purposes, you must create a separate ACE book for your existing assets. Assign each asset a depreciation method, life, and prorate convention according to ACE rules. Oracle Assets converts your assets to the new depreciation methods automatically when you update the ACE book. Oracle Assets also provides two exception reports that list the assets that Oracle Assets cannot update in the ACE book. To implement ACE, you must define the initial open period of your corporate, ACE, federal, and Alternate Minimum Tax (AMT) books as a period on or before the last period in the last tax year beginning before 1990. Each book must also use the same depreciation calendar Note: If you have ACE accumulated depreciation information from a previous assets system, you can set up your books for the last period for which you have the information and upload it using the ACE conversion table. You must set up the ACE book, mass copy your assets into the ACE book, and then update the ACE book according to ACE rules.

ACE Depreciation Rules

The ACE depreciation rules require you to depreciate your assets using specific methods, lives, and prorate conventions. The ACE rules for depreciation focus on assets you depreciate in the federal tax book under ACRS and MACRS methods. In some cases, the ACE rules require you to use the asset's net book value, not the cost, as the depreciable basis. According to ACE rules, you calculate ACE depreciation beginning with your fiscal year that begins in 1990. Thus, the first open period in the ACE book is the last period of the last fiscal year beginning before 1990. When you copy your assets into this period, ACE rules determine the depreciable basis, depreciation method, and other financial information for each asset. Oracle Assets looks at the asset's financial information in either the AMT or the federal book to determine new ACE information. If an asset is depreciating in the federal tax book using ACRS, Oracle Assets uses the federal book information. If the asset is depreciating in the federal book using MACRS, Oracle Assets uses the AMT book information. Oracle Assets automatically updates your assets when you run the Update ACE Book program. The following table summarizes the ACE rules:

Note: Oracle Assets does not change the asset cost or life in your ACE book. Instead, it uses an internal factor to adjust the depreciation rates to depreciate the net book value over the remaining life. Note: Assets placed in service after December 31, 1993 are not subject to ACE depreciation rules.